Early-phase climate investor using a 12,000+ startup proprietary database and hedge-fund-style quantitative screening instead of relationship sourcing, often taking board seats (96%) and presenting Rocky Mountain Institute sector expertise. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
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Early-phase investor focused exclusively on software/software-enabled companies across five behavior-change themes, delivering a structured, lean impact-assessment framework tailored to early ventures and rejecting mainstream ESG box‑checking. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Invests at pre-seed and seed in deep‑tech climate hardware (water, built environment, alternative materials), presenting a large government/academic domain team plus GPs who commercialize physics‑heavy products. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Formative-stage investor writing $1–25M checks, operating as a tiny, operator-led team (founder Jack Altman) that maintains direct founder relationships and is a preferred AI/software co-investor with Sequoia and Y Combinator. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Funds exceptional venture leaders building automation in traditional industries using ML/AI to enhance security, productivity tools for distributed work. A key differentiator: and upskilling for the trajectory.
Backs Black and African-led crypto formative-stage businesses, prioritizing scalable web3 and blockchain infrastructure for diaspora infrastructure; led by a founder with 15 years of operation' global funding-flows experience and a 20-country CBEE network.
Solo‑GP Anand Iyer, a former Microsoft engineer and serial entrepreneur, concentrates exclusively on web3 developer infrastructure and empowers teams construct tooling, security, and analytics offerings.
